Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. ("Lionsgate") is a Canadian-American entertainment company founded July 10, 1997 by Frank Giustra and domiciled in Vancouver, British Columbia, with principal U.S. offices in Santa Monica, California. It was publicly listed on the NYSE (LGF.A/LGF.B) and reported FY2024 revenue of roughly $4.0 billion with about 1,700 employees (SEC filings; Wikipedia). On May 6–7, 2025 it completed a separation: the film/TV studio business was spun into Lionsgate Studios Corp. (NYSE: LION), and the remaining company — owning the STARZ premium subscription platform — was renamed Starz Entertainment Corp., trading on Nasdaq as STRZ (company press release, May 7, 2025). The case data below concerns the pre-separation parent entity.
Operations. The company produced and distributed motion pictures and television programming — franchises including The Hunger Games, John Wick, Twilight, Power and Outlander, plus a library of more than 20,000 titles — and operated STARZ, a premium subscription streaming/linear service distributed through OTT apps and multichannel video providers, with about 20 million U.S./Canada subscribers as of December 31, 2024. It is an operating company, not a non-practicing entity.
Litigation posture. Pure defendant: 1 tracked case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff. The company has no history of asserting patents; its single appearance reflects defensive exposure common to streaming platforms.
Notable case. Helios Streaming, LLC et al. v. Starz Entertainment, LLC et al., No. 8:19-cv-02140 (C.D. Cal., Santa Ana Division), filed November 6, 2019. Plaintiffs Helios Streaming (exclusive licensing agent) and Ideahub (patent owner), a Korean-linked assertion campaign, asserted MPEG-DASH adaptive-streaming patents originally developed by Korean government-funded research institute ETRI (IAM/Lexology; PTAB filings). Defendants, represented by Dentons, filed counterclaims; after claim narrowing and a stay, the action was dismissed on April 21, 2021, with plaintiffs' claims dismissed with prejudice, consistent with settlement. The suit was filed in the defendants' home district, not the Eastern District of Texas.
Patent infringement suit asserting claim 5 of U.S. Patent No. 8,645,562, later narrowed per a February 18, 2021 letter. The case settled and was dismissed with prejudice on April 21, 2021.